"A lawsuit filed Wednesday in the 122nd District Court against the University of Texas Medical Branch on behalf of the 53-year-old Galveston man claims the hospital lost the 8-inch by 4-inch piece of skull and canceled three surgeries to replace it before admitting the mistake," the Galveston County Daily News reports.

Man, that's great -- three surgeries scheduled. We guess each time they were hoping the thing would just pop up somewhere. ("Okay Nurse, try to remember -- where was the last place you saw that piece of skull?")

Doctors put in some titanium mesh to replace the missing piece, but as Simmons' lawyer says -- in a statement we find difficult to dispute -- “Every doctor agrees that in the long-term, it’s always much better to replace the portion of the skull that was removed.”

"Nurse, have you checked your purse? Behind the sofa cushions? A piece of skull doesn't just GET UP AND WALK AWAY ON ITS OWN, DAMMIT!!"